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| Editor's Note After this issue COSEE Network News will be published on a bi-monthly schedule, continuing to bring news of interest to the COSEE community. Look for the next issue in about six weeks. Thanks for reading CNN. |
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Focus On...COSEE Networked Ocean World
COSEE Networked Ocean World is the August Center of the Month. Find out what’s new here. |
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| National COSEE Office |
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| The COSEE Best Practices Work Session on Broadening Participation and the Evaluators' Workshop will both be held in September at the University of Rhode Island. |
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| Sant Ocean Hall |
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| The Changing Tides series runs at Sant Ocean Hall throughout the year and features ocean scientists leading discussions on a range of topics. Visit the Changing Tides Series. |
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SACNAS National Conference, Seattle, October 11-14 The COSEE NCO is helping coordinate the second Ocean Sciences “street” in the exhibit area, which involves several ocean sciences-focused organizations (including the COSEE booth!) and highlights the growing presence of OS within the SACNAS community. The NCO will also present a Professional Development Session: Developing a Workforce to Support a Healthy Ocean, scheduled for Saturday, October 13 from 3:15 – 4:45 PM, Room 620, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington.
COSEE staff will also host an Ocean Sciences table during the Meet the Scientist session, an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to sit down in a casual setting to ask practicing professionals about their field and what it takes to establish a career. Please contact Liesl Hotaling if you are interested in volunteering for the Meet the Scientists session. |
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Scientist Engagement Working Group The Scientist Engagement Working Group (SEW-G) is wrapping up its work on the case study project COSEE Scientists Making an Impact in Ocean Sciences Education. In June and July 2012 Inverness Researchers, Inc. conducted a summative assessment of the website containing the twelve posted case studies, and has submitted a draft report. A SEWG conference call has been scheduled for August 28 to discuss this evaluation and the final case study of Dr. Mary Jane Perry (University of Maine, COSEE Ocean Systems), which is near completion. This COSEE-wide collaboration was sponsored by a National Science Foundation grant to University of Southern Mississippi, and will conclude on August 31, 2012. Please visit the COSEE Scientists Making an Impact website and contact Jessie Kastler with any questions or comments.
Web Working Group The WWG and RWS are consolidating COSEE resources into a limited number of parent categories to improve user searches. Admins will be able to add subcategories to meet individual Center requirements. Parent categories will consist of Broadening Participation, COSEE Conference Resources, For Educators, For Scientists, For Students, Ocean Science Topics, and (potentially) For the Public. COSEE CGOM (a center not on the CMS) is currently adding over 100 resources to COSEE.net. For more information, contact Annette deCharon, WWG Chair.
ENT Sub-Group Excellence in Network Tools subgroup (ENTS) members have been discussing productive ways to organize COSEE Resources on COSEE.net. For more information, contact one of the ENTS co-chairs Catherine Cramer and Carla Companion. |
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Report on Community Colleges and STEM The National Research Council (NRC) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have released a new report, Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape: Summary of a Summit, which looks at the changing and evolving relationships between community colleges and four-year institutions, with a focus on partnerships and articulation processes that can facilitate student success in STEM; expanding participation of students from historically underrepresented populations in undergraduate STEM education; and how subjects can serve as gateways or barriers to college completion. This report is based on a national summit that was supported by the National Science Foundation and organized by the NRC and the NAE.
Call for Papers: Teaching Geoscience in the Context of Culture and Place The Journal of Geoscience Education (JGE) is soliciting manuscripts for a themed issue on Teaching Geoscience in the Context of Culture and Place. The editors seek to compile a focused collection of articles that highlight current thinking, models, teaching methods, and authentic assessment of approaches integrating place-based learning, Western and traditional knowledge systems, or multicultural issues in geoscience education. Submission of research papers, curriculum and instruction papers, and commentaries are welcomed. The submission deadline is December 15, 2012. Submissions must comply with JGE guidelines. Contact the special issue associate editors for more information: Dr. Judy Lemus, University of Hawai'i at Manoa; and here. Deadline: September 14, 2012
First European Ocean Literacy Conference The First Conference on Ocean Literacy in Europe will be held in Bruges (Belgium) on October 12, 2012. At this conference marine scientists, educators, policy makers and experts will explore how Ocean Literacy can improve the future of European seas. For details visit here.
Contest for the Climate and Clean Air The Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC) has launched an international contest to find the ideal outreach toolkit to close the information gap on short-lived climate pollutants – SLCPs. Anyone aged 12 and 25 is invited to enter and help spread the word about SLCPs, such as black carbon, methane and hydrofluorocarbons. Closing date for entries is September 14, 2012. Visit the CCAC website for details of prizes and for more information. |
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COSEE Island Earth Twenty participants attended the Communication in Ocean Sciences Workshop, facilitated by COSEE Island Earth on Saturday, July 28, 2012. Former science writer for the Honolulu Advertiser and keynote speaker Jan Tenbruggencate talked about his experiences and knowledge gained from many years of educating and informing the public on scientific issues. This workshop was put on for Polynesian Voyaging Society educators, students, volunteers, and others who will be participants in the upcoming worldwide sail in 2013. The objective of the workshop was to get the participants familiar with the different means of media and gain some skill and comfort level in sharing their stories. Workshop presentations included how to deal with social media, print sources, television and radio interviews, blogging, and podcasts. Participants had the opportunity to test their new skills, giving trial presentations and receiving feedback for improvement.
The Hawaii Environmental Education Alliance (HEEA) hosted the Hawaii Environmental Education Symposium on Monday, July 30, 2012 at the Hawaii Convention Center. As part of the symposium objectives five concurrent sessions with applied themes were lead throughout the day. COSEE Island Earth hosted and sponsored one of these sessions, entitled Kai Connections: Building Education Partnerships in the Ocean Sciences. The session introduced the topic of ocean literacy and aligned these principals with the Hawaii Environmental Literacy Plan, as well as showcased on-going projects at marine science and conservation institutions that facilitate ocean sciences education in the Hawaiian Islands. The sessions also featured talks and activity demonstrations by marine science educators and researchers on a number of topics, including technology in ocean sciences, invasive species and connectivity, and education from a scientists' perspective. The symposium ended with a professional development and capacity-building seminar to boost the potential for environmental education in Hawaii.
COSEE OCEAN The World Maker Faire takes place at the New York Hall of Science (a COSEE OCEAN partner) on September 29-30, and COSEE OCEAN will be there, providing the first ocean science activities during this event that attracts close to 40,000 visitors. With the help of COSEE NOW’s partner MATE, participants will be building and flying ROVs in a 13-foot pool, and grad students from UMass will be leading activities from the Best of COSEE Hands-On Activities collection.
COSEE-Ocean Systems As the 3rd installment of its ongoing webinar series, the Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) and COSEE-OS presented a “nuts and bolts” session with interactive Q&A on July 25, 2012, targeting undergraduate students interested in learning more about STEM graduate programs and funding opportunities. IBP staff Chris Cash and Liv Detrick, along with special guest Dr. Adrian Ponce (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Manager of Higher Education) provided guidelines, advice and tips for students striving to understand the often non-intuitive and complex application process for graduate school, find a scientist to work with, and apply for fellowships – tasks usually tackled simultaneously during their senior year of college.
Chris and Liv also presented a one-year timeline to help students stay on track and organized amidst the plethora of deadlines, which can quickly become overwhelming especially when applying to multiple programs. They also walked the audience through IBP’s innovative web portal, Pathways to Science to find programs such as undergraduate summer research opportunities, graduate fellowships, postdoctoral positions, as well as resources and materials pertaining to recruitment, retention, and mentoring. More than 120 people attended the webinar, which can be viewed here.
As part of a teacher workshop for Anne Arundel County Schools at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, COSEE-OS demonstrated activities created for NASA's Aquarius Mission, summarized mission science, and highlighted educational resources available in our webinar archives. An overview of the COSEE-OS Concept Linked Integrated Media Builder (CLIMB) was also presented to interested teachers and Goddard staff. Read more here.
COSEE-Pacific Partnerships offers two week-long institutes in August that bring together community college educators and research scientists who are investigating marine and coastal ecosystems. Population Linkages in the Pacific Ocean took place August 6-9 at the University of Hawaii Kewalo Marine Laboratory. Biological and Physical Oceanography, taking place August 20-24 at Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University, will focus on a variety of oceanographic topics and issues related to the marine environment, including plankton communities, microbial processes, marine food-web interactions, ocean and estuarine circulation, oceanography sampling methods and ocean observing systems, evaluating coastal water quality and nutrient concentrations, and analysis of online oceanographic and water quality data. |
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Notes on STEAM from RISD’s John Maeda While much emphasis in today's world is on STEM learning, there are some who are strong proponents of turning STEM to STEAM by incorporating art and design. John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is one of the more outspoken supporters of this integration. Read more of Maeda's thoughts here.
Communicating Science Booklet The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has published a booklet titled Communicating Science: Giving Talks. Second Edition, also available online.
World Ocean Radio WOR is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues hosted by Peter Neill. Available for RSS feed, podcast, and syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide. |
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Contribute to CNN! Send news and announcements of interest to the COSEE Network community to the editor, Catherine Cramer.
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| COSEE Centers and Council Representatives |
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| COSEE Alaska (Robin Dublin, COSEE Alaska) |
| COSEE California (Craig Strang, UC Berkeley) |
| COSEE Florida (Edwin Massey, Indian River State College) |
| COSEE Island Earth (Judy Lemus, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology) |
| COSEE Networked Ocean World (Janice McDonnell, Rutgers University) |
| COSEE OCEAN (Bob Chen, University of Massachusetts) |
| COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities (Phil Bell, University of Washington) |
| COSEE-Ocean Systems (Annette deCharon, Darling Marine Center, University of Maine) |
| COSEE-Pacific Partnerships (Jan Hodder, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology) |
| COSEE SouthEast (Lundie Spence, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium) |
| COSEE-TEK (Ivar Babb, University of Connecticut) |
| COSEE-West (Linda Duguay, University of Southern California) |
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